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IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide1

Contents2......................... Introduction

2016 Diamond Race

3......................... Basic information – how it works, points, prize money

5......................... Season preview

6......................... Calendar

7......................... Event disciplines

9......................... Host broadcasters

Past seasons

10....................... Diamond Race winners (2010-2015)

16....................... Diamond Race all-time statistics (2010-2015)

29....................... TV reach

30....................... Competition review 2015

Useful information

46....................... Contact details – DL AG, IAAF, IMG, meeting organisers and press chiefs

53....................... Media accreditation

IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide2

IntroductionWelcome to the 2016 season of the IAAF Diamond League.

Now in its seventh year, the IAAF Diamond League has firmly established itself as the sport’s leading non-championship competition. But, crucially, it also continues to evolve.

Having covered Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA in its first six seasons, the IAAF Diamond League will, for the first time, extend to a new continental area in 2016: Africa. As of this year, the Meeting International Mohammed VI in Rabat will replace the New York Grand Prix.

Also new in 2016 is a change to the scoring system. Previously, just the top three finishers in each discipline would score points at IAAF Diamond League meetings, but now there will be points on offer to the top six finishers.

But other fundamental aspects of the series remain in place. The season-long Diamond Race – the core of the IAAF Diamond League – will encourage athletes to line up against one another throughout the summer as they accumulate points in pursuit of the US$40,000 cash prize, the stunning Diamond Trophy, and the indisputable honour of being the world No.1 in their event.

Virtually the full spectrum of Olympic track and field disciplines are represented across the 14-meeting series with a combined total of US$8million on offer. Broadcast annually in more than 120 countries, the series provides athletics with its next most prominent global shop window.

In this year’s series, 10 meetings will take place in the build-up to the Olympic Games in Rio, while the remaining four meetings will be held in the weeks that follow. The IAAF Diamond League will therefore set the scene for the No.1 sport in the world’s biggest sporting event.

Sebastian Coe IAAF President and chairman of the Board of Diamond League AG

How it works | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide3

How it worksThe IAAF Diamond League comprises 14 of the best invitational track and field meetings in the world. The meetings are spread across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the USA, and compose the top tier of the IAAF’s global one-day meeting competition structure.

This series of 14 meetings, which began in 2010, showcases 32 event disciplines which are carefully distributed among the meetings. In each of the 32 event disciplines there is a ‘Diamond Race’ with points available throughout the 14-meeting season. Winners of each Diamond Race receive a US$40,000 cash prize and a spectacular Diamond Trophy. But more importantly, their season-long consistency will have earned them the unchallenged honour of being the world No.1.

Each of the 32 event disciplines is staged seven times with the top three athletes being awarded the same number of points at each meeting with the exception of the final where the points are doubled. The London Anniversary Games and the Prefontaine Classic both take place over two days, but each count as one meeting.

To win a Diamond Race and its associated prize, an athlete must compete in the final (Zurich or Brussels) with a bona fide effort. If, however, an athlete has accumulated enough points and therefore cannot be beaten by another athlete and is injured or ill and cannot participate in the final, that athlete can still win the overall Diamond Race in their respective discipline based on a medical exemption issued by the official meeting doctor on site of the respective final (i.e. after examination in Zurich or Brussels). Such exemption has to be given no later than the evening before the final.

How it works | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide4

PointsPoints per event discipline at each meeting:

1st – 10 points (Final: 20 points) 4th – 3 points (Final: 6 points) 2nd – 6 points (Final: 12 points) 5th – 2 points (Final: 4 points) 3rd – 4 points (Final: 8 points) 6th – 1 point (Final: 2 points)

The athlete with the highest number of points in each event discipline at the end of the IAAF Diamond League season wins the ‘Diamond Race’.

In case of equality on points, the number of victories decides. If there still is a tie, the better result at the final decides.

For an athlete to win a Diamond Race and its associated prize, and/or to be ranked in the final points standings, he/she must compete in the final (Zürich or Brussels) of their event discipline.

Prize moneyAt each of the 14 meetings, all 32 disciplines have the same prize money with a total of USD $30,000 x 16 = USD $480,000 per meeting.

Place – prize money

1st – US$10,000 5th – US$2500 2nd – US$6000 6th – US$2000 3rd – US$4000 7th – US$1500 4th – US$3000 8th – US$1000

plus rewards for 9th-12th place finishers in distance races and ninth-lane runners in sprints.

The overall winner of each of the 32 Diamond Races will receive a US$40,000 cash prize and a spectacular Diamond Trophy created by Beyer, one of the oldest and most respected jewellers in the world, which was established in Zurich in the 18th century.

Combining the meeting prize money with the Diamond Race cash, the IAAF Diamond League is offering a total of US$8 million in prize money in 2016.

Diamond Race winners – wild cards for the IAAF World Championships London 2017The overall event winners of the 32 Diamond Races which compose the IAAF Diamond League from the previous year benefit from a wild card, much in the same way as already happens with the defending world champion.

However, only one or the other can participate as a wild card in case both are from the same country (so the maximum entry from a country will be limited to four in any individual event). The decision to finally enter the athlete still rests entirely with the national federation, which maintains full control of the final entries.

Diamond Race winners – automatic invites for next seasonTo guarantee the strongest possible fields of competitors at each meeting, all winners of the previous year’s Diamond Trophies automatically receive an invitation to compete in their event discipline during the following IAAF Diamond League season.

2016 season preview | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide5

2016 season previewThe seventh season of the IAAF Diamond League will blast out of the blocks on 6 May 2016 in Doha, Qatar.

The structure of the IAAF Diamond League follows the successful format of the first six seasons. With the 14-meeting circuit straddling the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (12-21 August) – and with the series going to Africa for the first time – the action is going to be hot.

Athletes will battle for qualification marks and team places in the run-up to the Olympics, and will then look for revenge or defend their newly won reputations in their post-championship campaigns.

World’s top stars guaranteedThe top stars of athletics will once again be taking part in the IAAF Diamond League in 2016. After six seasons, the goal of ensuring head-to-head competition between the best athletes in the world has been achieved in almost every event discipline.

The names of the participating athletes in 2016 will be announced on a meeting-by-meeting basis, as was the case during the first six seasons. Follow all the news and live results on diamondleague.com.

Get set for a new season of the very best of the best of track and field. Get set for the IAAF Diamond League 2016.

http://www.diamondleague.com

2016 calendar | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide6

2016 calendar

Doha, QAT Friday 6 May

Shanghai, CHN Saturday 14 May

Rabat, MAR Sunday 22 May

Eugene, USA Friday 27 - Saturday 28 May

Rome, ITA Thursday 2 Jun

Birmingham, GBR Sunday 5 Jun

Oslo, NOR Thursday 9 Jun

Stockholm, SWE Thursday 16 Jun

Monaco, MON Friday 15 Jul

London, GBR Friday 22 - Saturday 23 Jul

Lausanne, SUI Thursday 25 Aug

Paris, FRA Saturday 27 Aug

Zurich, SUI Thursday 1 Sep

Brussels, BEL Friday 9 Sep

Diamond Race disciplines | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide7

2016 Diamond Race disciplines – men100m Shanghai

14 MayEugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

200m Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

400m Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

800m Shanghai 14 May

Rabat 22 May

Eugene 28 May

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

1500m Doha 6 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Oslo 9 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

3000m/ 5000m

Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

3000m steeplechase

Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

110m hurdles

Doha 6 May

Shanghai 14 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

400m hurdles

Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

High jump Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

Pole vault Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

Lausanne 25 Aug

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

Long jump Shanghai 14 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

London 22-23 Jul

Brussels 9 Sep

Triple jump Doha 6 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

Shot put Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

Discus Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

Javelin Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

Diamond Race disciplines | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide8

2016 Diamond Race disciplines – women100m Doha

6 MayRabat

22 MayRome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep


Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep


Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

800m Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep


Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

3000m/ 5000m

Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

3000m steeplechase

Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

100m hurdles

Eugene 28 May

Birmingham 5 Jun

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

400m hurdles

Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

High jump Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

Pole vault Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

London 22-23 Jul

Brussels 9 Sep

Long jump Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

Lausanne 25 Aug

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

Triple jump Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

Shot put Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

Discus Shanghai 14 May

Eugene 28 May

Oslo 9 Jun

Stockholm 16 Jun

London 22-23 Jul

Paris 27 Aug

Zurich 1 Sep

Javelin Doha 6 May

Rabat 22 May

Rome 2 Jun

Birmingham 5 Jun

Monaco 15 Jul

Lausanne 25 Aug

Brussels 9 Sep

2016 host broadcasters | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide9

2016 host broadcasters

Birmingham BBC

Brussels VRT

Doha beIN SPORTS

Eugene NBC

Lausanne RTS, SRG SSR

London BBC

Monaco Canal +

Oslo NRK

Paris Canal +

Rabat SNRT

Rome RAI

Shanghai CCTV

Stockholm SVT

Zurich SF

Diamond Race winners | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide10

Diamond Race winners

2010Men Event Women

Tyson Gay (USA) 100m Carmelita Jeter (USA)

Wallace Spearmon (USA) 200m Allyson Felix (USA)

Jeremy Wariner (USA) 400m Allyson Felix (USA)

David Rudisha (KEN) 800m Janeth Jepkosgei (KEN)

Asbel Kiprop (KEN) 1500m Nancy Jebet Langat (KEN)

Imane Merga (ETH) 5000m Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)

Paul Kipsiele Koech (KEN) 3000m steeplechase Milcah Chemos Cheiywa (KEN)

David Oliver (USA) 110m/100m hurdles Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (CAN)

Bershawn Jackson (USA) 400m hurdles Kaliese Spencer (JAM)

Ivan Ukhov (RUS) High jump Blanka Vlašic (CRO)

Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) Pole vault Fabiana Murer (BRA)

Dwight Phillips (USA) Long jump Brittney Reese (USA)

Teddy Tamgho (FRA) Triple jump Yargelis Savigne (CUB)

Christian Cantwell (USA) Shot put Nadezhda Ostapchuk (BLR)

Piotr Malachowski (POL) Discus Yarelis Barrios (CUB)

Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR) Javelin Barbora Špotáková (CZE)


2011

Men Event Women

Asafa Powell (JAM) 100m Carmelita Jeter (USA)

Walter Dix (USA) 200m Carmelita Jeter (USA)

Kirani James (GRN) 400m Amantle Montsho (BOT)

David Rudisha (KEN) 800m Jennifer Meadows (GBR)

Nixon Chepseba (KEN) 1500m Morgan Uceny (USA)

Imane Merga (ETH) 5000m Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)


Dayron Robles (CUB) 110m/100m hurdles Danielle Carruthers (USA)

David Greene (GBR) 400m hurdles Kaliese Spencer (JAM)

Jesse Williams (USA) High jump Blanka Vlašic (CRO)

Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) Pole vault Silke Spiegelburg (GER)

Mitchell Watt (AUS) Long jump Brittney Reese (USA)

Phillips Idowu (GBR) Triple jump Olga Saladukha (UKR)

Dylan Armstrong (CAN) Shot put Valerie Adams (NZL)

Virgilijus Alekna (LTU) Discus Yarelis Barrios (CUB)

Matthias De Zordo (GER) Javelin Christina Obergföll (GER)


2012

Men Event Women

Usain Bolt (JAM) 100m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

Nickel Ashmeade (JAM) 200m Charonda Williams (USA)

Kevin Borlée (BEL) 400m Amantle Montsho (BIT)

Mohammed Aman (ETH) 800m Pamela Jelimo (KEN)

Silas Kiplagat (KEN) 1500m Abeba Aregawi (SWE)

Isiah Kiplangat Koech (KEN) 5000m Vivian Cheruiyot (KEN)


Aries Merritt (USA) 110m/100m hurdles Dawn Harper (USA)

Javier Culson (PUR) 400m hurdles Kaliese Spencer (JAM)

Robbie Grabarz (GBR) High jump Chaunte Lowe (USA)


Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) Long jump Yelena Sokolova (RUS)

Christian Taylor (USA) Triple jump Olga Rypakova (KAZ)

Reese Hoffa (USA) Shot put Valerie Adams (NZL)

Gerd Kanter (EST) Discus Sandra Perkovic (CRO)

Vítezslav Veselý (CZE) Javelin Barbora Špotáková (CZE)


2013

Men Event Women

Justin Gatlin (USA) 100m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

Warren Weir (JAM) 200m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

LaShawn Merritt (USA) 400m Amantle Montsho (BOT)

Mohammed Aman (ETH) 800m Eunice Jepkoech Sum (KEN)

Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI) 1500m Abeba Aregawi (SWE)

Yenew Alamirew (ETH) 5000m Meseret Defar (ETH)

Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) 3000m steeplechase Milcah Chemos Cheiywa (KEN)

David Oliver (USA) 110m/100m hurdles Dawn Harper Nelson (USA)

Javier Culson (PUR) 400m hurdles Zuzana Hejnová (CZE)

Bogdan Bondarenko (UKR) High jump Svetlana Shkolina (RUS)


Aleksandr Menkov (RUS) Long jump Shara Proctor (GBR)

Christian Taylor (USA) Triple jump Caterine Ibargüen (COL)

Ryan Whiting (USA) Shot put Valerie Adams (NZL)

Gerd Kanter (EST) Discus Sandra Perkovic (CRO)

Vítezslav Veselý (CZE) Javelin Christina Obergföll (GER)


2014

Men Event Women

Justin Gatlin (USA) 100m Veronica Campbell-Brown (JAM)

Alonso Edward (PAN) 200m Allyson Felix (USA)

LaShawn Merritt (USA) 400m Novlene Williams-Mills (JAM)

Nijel Amos (BOT) 800m Eunice Jepkoech Sum (KEN)

Silas Kiplagat (KEN) 1500m Jennifer Simpson (USA)

Caleb Ndiku (KEN) 5000m Mercy Cherono (KEN)

Jairus Birech (KEN) 3000m steeplechase Hiwot Ayalew (ETH)

Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA) 110m/100m hurdles Dawn Harper Nelson (USA)

Michael Tinsley (USA) 400m hurdles Kaliese Spencer (JAM)

Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) High jump Maria Kuchina (RUS)

Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) Pole vault Fabiana Murer (BRA)

Godfrey Mokoena (RSA) Long jump Tianna Bartoletta (USA)


Reese Hoffa (USA) Shot put Valerie Adams (NZL)

Piotr Malachowski (POL) Discus Sandra Perkovic (CRO)

Thomas Röhler (GER) Javelin Barbora Špotáková (CZE)


2015

Men Event Women

Justin Gatlin (USA) 100m Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM)

Alonso Edward (PAN) 200m Allyson Felix (USA)

Kirani James (GRN) 400m Francena McCorory (USA)

Nijel Amos (BOT) 800m Eunice Jepkoech Sum (KEN)

Asbel Kiprop (KEN) 1500m Sifan Hassan (NED)

Yomif Kejelcha (ETH) 5000m Genzebe Dibaba (ETH)

Jairus Birech (KEN) 3000m steeplechase Virginia Nyambura (KEN)

David Oliver (USA) 110m/100m hurdles Dawn Harper Nelson (USA)

Bershawn Jackson (USA) 400m hurdles Zuzana Hejnová (CZE)

Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) High jump Ruth Beitia (ESP)

Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) Pole vault Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou (GRE)

Greg Rutherford (GBR) Long jump Tianna Bartoletta (USA)


Joe Kovacs (USA) Shot put Christina Schwanitz (GER)

Piotr Malachowski (POL) Discus Sandra Perkovic (CRO)

Tero Pitkamaki (FIN) Javelin Barbora Špotáková (CZE)

Diamond Race statistics 2010-2015 | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide16

Multiple Diamond Race winners – men, overallWins Athlete NAT Event Winning years

6 Renaud Lavillenie FRA Pole vault 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 20154 Christian Taylor USA Triple jump 2012, 2013, 2014, 20153 Justin Gatlin USA 100m 2013, 2014, 20153 Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 3000m SC 2010, 2011, 20123 Piotr Malachowski POL Discus 2010, 2014, 20153 David Oliver USA 110m hurdles 2010, 2013, 20152 Mohammed Aman ETH 800m 2012, 20132 Nijel Amos BOT 800m 2014, 20152 Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT High jump 2014, 20152 Jairus Birech KEN 3000m SC 2014, 20152 Javier Culson PUR 400m hurdles 2012, 20132 Alonso Edward PAN 200m 2014, 20152 Reese Hoffa USA Shot put 2012, 20142 Bershawn Jackson USA 400m hurdles 2010, 20152 Kirani James GRN 400m 2011, 20152 Gerd Kanter EST Discus 2012, 20132 Asbel Kiprop KEN 1500m 2010, 20152 Silas Kiplagat KEN 1500m 2012, 20142 Aleksandr Menkov RUS Long jump 2012, 20132 Imane Merga ETH 5000m 2010, 20112 LaShawn Merritt USA 400m 2013, 20142 David Rudisha KEN 800m 2010, 20112 Vitezslav Vesely CZE Javelin 2012, 2013

Diamond Race statistics 2010-2015


Multiple Diamond Race winners – men, single disciplinesWins Athlete NAT Event Winning years

6 Renaud Lavillenie FRA Pole vault 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

4 Christian Taylor USA Triple jump 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

3 Justin Gatlin USA 100m 2013, 2014, 2015

3 Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 3000m SC 2010, 2011, 2012

3 Piotr Malachowski POL Discus 2010, 2014, 2015

3 David Oliver USA 110m hurdles 2010, 2013, 2015

2 Mohammed Aman ETH 800m 2012, 2013

2 Nijel Amos BOT 800m 2014, 2015

2 Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT High jump 2014, 2015

2 Jairus Birech KEN 3000m SC 2014, 2015

2 Javier Culson PUR 400m hurdles 2012, 2013

2 Alonso Edward PAN 200m 2014, 2015

2 Reese Hoffa USA Shot put 2012, 2014

2 Bershawn Jackson USA 400m hurdles 2010, 2015

2 Kirani James GRN 400m 2011, 2015

2 Gerd Kanter EST Discus 2012, 2013

2 Asbel Kiprop KEN 1500m 2010, 2015

2 Silas Kiplagat KEN 1500m 2012, 2014

2 Aleksandr Menkov RUS Long jump 2012, 2013

2 Imane Merga ETH 5000m 2010, 2011

2 LaShawn Merritt USA 400m 2013, 2014

2 David Rudisha KEN 800m 2010, 2011

2 Vitezslav Vesely CZE Javelin 2012, 2013


Multiple Diamond Race winners – women, overallWins Athlete NAT Event Winning years

4 Valerie Adams NZL Shot put 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

4 Milcah Chemos KEN 3000m SC 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

4 Allyson Felix USA 200m/400m 2010, 2014, 2015

4 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 100m/200m 2012, 2013, 2015

4 Dawn Harper Nelson USA 100m hurdles 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

4 Sandra Perkovic CRO Discus 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

4 Kaliese Spencer JAM 400m hurdles 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

4 Barbora Spotakova CZE Javelin 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015

3 Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 5000m 2010, 2011, 2012

3 Caterine Ibarguen COL Triple jump 2013, 2014, 2015

3 Carmelita Jeter USA 100m/200m 2010, 2011

3 Amantle Montsho BOT 400m 2011, 2012, 2013

3 Silke Spiegelburg GER Pole vault 2011, 2012, 2013

3 Eunice Jepkoech Sum KEN 800m 2013, 2014, 2015

2 Abeba Aregawi SWE 1500m 2012, 2013

2 Yarelis Barrios CUB Discus 2010, 2011

2 Tianna Bartoletta USA Long jump 2014, 2015

2 Zuzana Hejnova CZE 400m hurdles 2013, 2015

2 Fabiana Murer BRA Pole vault 2010, 2014

2 Christina Obergfoll GER Javelin 2011, 2013

2 Brittney Reese USA Long jump 2010, 2011

2 Blanka Vlasic CRO High jump 2010, 2011


Multiple Diamond Race winners – women, single disciplinesWins Athlete NAT Event Winning years

4 Valerie Adams NZL Shot put 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

4 Milcah Chemos KEN 3000m SC 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

4 Dawn Harper Nelson USA 100m hurdles 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

4 Sandra Perkovic CRO Discus 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

4 Kaliese Spencer JAM 400m hurdles 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

4 Barbora Spotakova CZE Javelin 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015

3 Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 5000m 2010, 2011, 2012

3 Allyson Felix USA 200m 2010, 2014, 2015

3 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 100m 2012, 2013, 2015

3 Caterine Ibarguen COL Triple jump 2013, 2014, 2015

3 Amantle Montsho BOT 400m 2011, 2012, 2013

3 Silke Spiegelburg GER Pole vault 2011, 2012, 2013

3 Eunice Jepkoech Sum KEN 800m 2013, 2014, 2015

2 Abeba Aregawi SWE 1500m 2012, 2013

2 Yarelis Barrios CUB Discus 2010, 2011

2 Tianna Bartoletta USA Long jump 2014, 2015

2 Zuzana Hejnova CZE 400m hurdles 2013, 2015

2 Carmelita Jeter USA 100m 2010, 2011

2 Fabiana Murer BRA Pole vault 2010, 2014

2 Christina Obergfoll GER Javelin 2011, 2013

2 Brittney Reese USA Long jump 2010, 2011

2 Blanka Vlasic CRO High jump 2010, 2011


Most victories in Diamond Race events all-time – overallMen top 10

Wins Athlete NAT Event(s)

27 Renaud Lavillenie FRA Pole vault

16 Asbel Kiprop KEN 800m/1500m

15 Usain Bolt JAM 100m/200m

14 Christian Taylor USA Long jump/triple jump

14 David Rudisha KEN 800m

14 Piotr Malachowski POL Discus

14 Reese Hoffa USA Shot put

13 David Oliver USA 110m hurdles

12 Justin Gatlin USA 100m/200m

12 Javier Culson PUR 400m hurdles

Women top 10


27 Sandra Perkovic CRO Discus

24 Valerie Adams NZL Shot put

21 Kaliese Spencer JAM 400m hurdles

19 Caterine Ibarguen COL Triple jump

18 Allyson Felix USA 100m/200m/400m

16 Milcah Chemos KEN 3000m SC

15 Dawn Harper Nelson USA 100m hurdles

15 Barbora Spotakova CZE Javelin

14 Zuzana Hejnova CZE 400m hurdles

14 Blanka Vlašic CRO High jump


Most victories in Diamond Race events all-time – single disciplineMen top 10




14 Asbel Kiprop KEN 1500m


14 David Rudisha KEN 800m


13 Christian Taylor USA Triple jump


11 Robert Harting GER Discus

11 Silas Kiplagat KEN 1500m

11 LaShawn Merritt USA 400m

Women top 10






16 Milcah Chemos KEN 3000m SC




14 Blanka Vlašic CRO High jump

13 Fabiana Murer BRA Pole vault


Most Diamond Race scoring (top-three) finishes all-time – overallMen top 10

No. Athlete NAT Event(s)







27 Paul Kipsiele Koech KEN 3000m SC


24 Gerd Kanter EST Discus

23 Tero Pitkamaki FIN Javelin

Women top 10



32 Kaliese Spencer JAM 400m, 400m hurdles




29 Barbora Špotáková CZE Javelin

28 Blessing Okagbare NGR 100m/200m/long jump

27 Amantle Montsho BOT 400m

24 Olga Saladukha UKR Triple jump

22 Sofia Assefa ETH 3000m SC

22 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 100m/200m

22 Olga Rypakova KAZ Triple jump


Most Diamond Race scoring (top-three) finishes all-time – single eventMen top 10









24 Asbel Kiprop KEN 1500m

24 Christian Taylor USA Triple jump


Women top 10






29 Barbora Špotáková CZE Javelin


24 Olga Saladukha UKR Triple jump


22 Olga Rypakova KAZ Triple jump



21 Blanka Vlasic CRO High jump


Most appearances in Diamond Leagues all-time – overallMen top 10







36 Tomasz Majewski POL Shot put



35 Haron Lagat KEN 3000m SC


Women top 10


46 Blessing Okagbare NGR 100m/200m/long jump

44 Viola Jelagat Kibiwot KEN 1500m/3000m/5000m

38 Kaliese Spencer JAM 400m/400m hurdles

37 Michelle Carter USA Shot put






32 Mercy Cherono KEN 1500m/3000m/5000m


32 Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 400m


Most appearances in Diamond Leagues all-time – single disciplineMen top 10






36 Tomasz Majewski POL Shot put



35 Haron Lagat KEN 3000m SC



Women top 10


37 Michelle Carter USA Shot put

36 Kaliese Spencer JAM 400m/400m hurdles






32 Novlene Williams-Mills JAM 400m

31 Funmi Jimoh USA Long jump



Most Diamond Race points all-time – overallMen top 10

Pts Athlete NAT Event(s)








76 Usain Bolt JAM 100m/200m



Women top 10

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82 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 100m/200m


Diamond League records – men (at end of 2015 season, Diamond Race events only)

Event Result Wind Athlete Born Nat Venue Date

100m 9.76 -0.1 Usain Bolt 86 JAM Roma (ITA) 31.05.12

non-Diamond Race 9.69 -0.1 Yohan Blake 89 JAM Lausanne (SUI) 23.08.12

200m 19.26 +0.7 Yohan Blake 89 JAM Bruxelles (BEL) 16.09.11

400m 43.74 Kirani James 92 GRN Lausanne (SUI) 03.07.14

800m 1:41.54 David Rudisha 88 KEN Paris (FRA) 06.07.12

1500m 3:27.64 Silas Kiplagat 89 KEN Monaco (MON) 18.07.14

non-Diamond Race 3:26.69 Asbel Kiprop 89 KEN Monaco (MON) 17.07.15

Mile 3:47.32 Ayanleh Souleiman 92 DJI Eugene (USA) 31.05.14

3000m 7:27.26 Yenew Alamirew 90 ETH Doha (QAT) 06.05.11

5000m 12:46.81 Dejen Gebremeskel 89 ETH Paris (FRA) 06.07.12

110m hurdles 12.80 +0.3 Aries Merritt 85 USA Bruxelles (BEL) 07.09.12

400m hurdles 47.62 Bershawn Jackson 83 USA Lausanne (SUI) 08.07.10

3000m steeplechase 7:53.64 Brimin Kiprop Kipruto 85 KEN Monaco (MON) 22.07.11

High jump 2.43 Mutaz Essa Barshim 91 QAT Bruxelles (BEL) 05.09.14

Pole vault 6.05 Renaud Lavillenie 86 FRA Eugene (USA) 30.05.15

Long jump 8.54 +1.7 Mitchell Watt 88 AUS Stockholm (SWE) 29.07.11

Triple jump18.06 +0.8 Pedro Pablo Pichardo 93 CUB Doha (QAT) 15.05.1518.06 +1.1 Christian Taylor 90 USA Lausanne (SUI) 09.07.15

Shot put 22.56 Joe Kovacs 89 USA Monaco (MON) 17.07.15

Discus 69.83 Piotr Małachowski 83 POL Gateshead (GBR) 10.07.10

Javelin 91.39 Julius Yego 89 KEN Birmingham (GBR) 07.06.15


Diamond League records – women (at end of 2015 season, Diamond Race events only)

Event Result Wind Athlete Born Nat Venue Date

100m 10.70 +2.0 Carmelita Jeter 79 USA Eugene (USA) 04.06.11

200m21.98 +1.4 Veronica Campbell-Brown 82 JAM New York (USA) 12.06.1021.98 +1.6 Allyson Felix 85 USA Doha (QAT) 15.05.15

400m 49.33 Amantle Montsho 83 BOT Monaco (MON) 19.07.13

800m 1:56.59 Francine Niyonsaba 93 BDI Bruxelles (BEL) 07.09.12

1500m 3:50.07 Genzebe Dibaba 91 ETH Monaco (MON) 17.07.15

Mile 4:16.71 Faith Kipyegon 94 KEN Bruxelles (BEL) 11.09.15

3000m 8:20.68 Hellen Obiri 89 KEN Doha (QAT) 09.05.14

5000m 14:14.32 Almaz Ayana 91 ETH Shanghai (CHN) 17.05.15

100m hurdles 12.35 +0.9 Jasmin Stowers 91 USA Doha (QAT) 15.05.15

400m hurdles 52.79 Kaliese Spencer 87 JAM London (GBR) 05.08.11

3000m steeplechase 9:05.36 Habiba Ghribi 84 TUN Bruxelles (BEL) 11.09.15

High jump 2.05 Anna Chicherova 82 RUS Bruxelles (BEL) 16.09.11

Pole vault4.83 Yarisley Silva 87 CUB London (GBR) 26.07.134.83 Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou 86 GRE Paris (FRA) 04.07.15

Long jump 7.25 +1.6 Brittney Reese 86 USA Doha (QAT) 10.05.13

Triple jump 15.31 0.0 Caterine Ibarguen 84 COL Monaco (MON) 18.07.14

Shot put 21.03 Valerie Adams 84 NZL Roma (ITA) 31.05.12

Discus 70.52 Sandra Perkovic 90 CRO Shanghai (CHN) 18.05.14

Javelin 69.57 Christina Obergföll 81 GER Zürich (SUI) 08.09.11

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Competition review 2015

Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor produced the first 18-metre effort of his career in the final round to go equal fourth on the world all-time list but on an astonishing night still finished one place behind the winner, Pedro Pablo Pichardo.

The 21-year-old Cuban’s magnificent third-round effort of 18.06m – despite taking off with about six centimetres to spare – proved enough to win.

Taylor’s finale of 18.04m added eight centimetres to his previous best, set when winning the 2011 world title. Never before had two men bettered 18 metres in the same competition.

Pichardo’s was one of three IAAF Diamond League records at this opening meeting.

Olympic 200m champion Allyson Felix won for her 12th time in Doha in 21.98, equalling the time set by Veronica Campbell-Brown in New York five years earlier.

Fellow US athlete Jasmin Stowers, a 23-year-old competing internationally for the first time since the 2007 IAAF World Youth Championships, won the 100m hurdles in a sizzling 12.35.

Kenya’s Virginia Nyambura, tasked with pacing the women’s 3000m steeplechase field to the 2000m point, caused a huge upset by carrying on to win herself in 9:21.51.

Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman ran 1:43.78 to win a high-quality 800m. Tero Pitkamaki won the javelin with a last-round throw of 88.62m while Tianna Bartoletta also produced a winning final flourish in the women’s long jump with 6.99m.

Justin Gatlin won the men’s 100m in 9.74, the fastest in the world for almost three years.

Doha, 15 May


This meeting, two days after Doha, gave top billing to the pursuit of the world high jump record by Bogdan Bondarenko and Mutaz Essa Barshim but Almaz Ayana upstaged the pair and provided the highlight by running the third-fastest 5000m time ever, 14:14.32.

The 23-year-old Ethiopian, who finished 150 metres clear, set a meeting record, an Asian all-comers’ record and an IAAF Diamond League record.

A failure at 2.41m by Bondarenko, after two unsuccessful attempts at 2.38m, left Barshim the winner at the latter height.

A chilly night produced four other world-leading marks. Silas Kiplagat won the men’s 1500m in 3:35.29, and fellow Kenyan Jairus Birech took the 3000m steeplechase in 8:05.36

In the field events. China’s world and Olympic shot put bronze medallist Gong Lijiao reached 20.23m, the second-best effort of her career, to beat Germany’s Christina Schwanitz, who was second with 19.94m, while Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou won the women’s pole vault with a Greek outdoor record of 4.73m.

Triple jumper Caterine Ibarguen maintained her post-London 2012 winning run with a best of 14.85m.

Eighteen-year-old home hope Wang Jianan set an Asian junior record of 8.25m when finishing third in the long jump behind Russia’s 2013 world champion Aleksandr Menkov, who won with 8.27m, and USA’s Jeff Henderson, who took second with 8.26m.

Jamaica’s world and Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce trailed home fifth behind winner Blessing Okagbare, who stopped the clock in 10.98.

As well as Gong in the shot put, there was another Chinese victory in the women’s javelin. In a close competition, Lu Huihui threw 64.08m to get the better of Sunette Viljoen by 48 centimetres.

Shanghai, 17 May


Renaud Lavillenie, the 2014 world athlete of the year, shrugged off a lingering shoulder injury to set an outdoor personal best and IAAF Diamond League pole vault record of 6.05m.

Mutaz Essa Barshim required a meeting record of 2.41m to win a thrilling high jump competition in which China’s Zhang Guowei set a personal best of 2.38m.

Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba missed her older sister Tirunesh’s seven-year-old world 5000m record of 14:11.15, clocking an outdoor personal best of 14:19.76.

Colombia’s world triple jump champion Caterine Ibarguen needed a sixth-round jump of 15.18m to trump the personal best of 15.04m set by Russia’s Yekaterina Koneva and extend her winning streak to 24 meetings.

Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce won the 100m in a world-leading 10.81 with Murielle Ahoure recording the same time for an Ivory Coast record. Grenada’s Olympic champion Kirani James clocked the season’s first sub-44-second run when he won the 400m in 43.95.

Justin Gatlin won the 200m in 19.68, equalling his personal best set in 2014.

Outstanding performances the night before the main part of the meeting came from Britain’s Mo Farah, victor in the men’s 10,000m in 26:50.97; plus home athletes Tianna Bartoletta, winner of the women’s long jump with a wind-assisted 7.11m, and Joe Kovacs, who produced a final effort of 22.12m to clinch victory over double world champion David Storl, who was second with 21.92m.

Eugene, 29-30 May


Pedro Pablo Pichardo maintained his pre-eminence in the men’s triple jump by breaking the 1998 meeting record of 17.60m set by world record-holder Jonathan Edwards with a mark of 17.96m that was also a stadium record.

Ethiopia’s 17-year-old world junior champion Yomif Kejelcha took 12 seconds off his 5000m personal best to win in a world-leading 12:58.39, with Kenya’s Paul Tanui second in 12:58.69, which was also a personal best.

Earlier, Kejelcha’s compatriot Mohammed Aman, the 2013 world 800m champion, also set a world-leading mark as he won over two laps of the track in 1:43.56.

Another 2013 world champion, Czech Republic’s Vitezslav Vesely, won an entertaining javelin competition with 88.14m. Julius Yego set a Kenyan record of 87.71m in round four, adding 85 centimetres to his own mark set a week earlier in Ostrava, and in the final round, Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott also threw a national record of 86.20m.

A heavy fall off the fifth barrier left Australia’s Olympic 100m hurdles champion Sally Pearson requiring surgery for a dislocation and complex fracture of both the ulna and the radius in her left arm.

World champion Brianna Rollins also fell and Jasmin Stowers saw her four-race winning run ended as she jogged home seventh after coming to grief at the eighth hurdle as their US compatriot Sharika Nelvis won in 12.52.

USA’s Jenny Simpson won the women’s 1500m in 3:59.31 and Kenya’s Hyvin Kiyeng took almost seven seconds off her 3000m

steeplechase personal best with 9:15.08, both times topping the 2015 world lists.

Justin Gatlin won the 100m in a meeting record of 9.75.

Rome, 4 June


Kenya’s Julius Yego won an extraordinary javelin competition with a final effort of 91.39m that was initially ruled illegal but eventually confirmed as an African and IAAF Diamond League record and the best throw seen since 2006.

Until Yego’s dramatic finale, victory appeared destined for the Czech Republic’s world champion Viteslav Vesely, whose own last-round effort of 88.18m, a season’s best, had taken him past Yego’s then lead of 86.53m and the national record of 86.43m set by Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott.

Yego’s climactic throw was measured, despite being adjudged to have landed outside the sector. There was room for appeal however, as the sector lines had not been extended beyond 87 metres, and although the original decision was confirmed by the judges, the throw was declared valid 20 minutes after the meeting ended.

Britain’s Olympic champion Greg Rutherford won the long jump with 8.35m, the second-best of his career.

World, Olympic and European discus champion Sandra Perkovic reached 69.23m, smashing the meeting record of 66.16m set by Ellina Zvereva back in 2002.

Jeneba Tarmoh won the women’s 200m in 22.29, with US compatriot Allyson Felix second in the same time. Britain’s world junior champion Dina Asher-Smith was third in a personal best of 22.30.

In a non-Diamond Race 300m, Wayde van Niekerk produced an African record of 31.63

Birmingham, 7 June


Great Britain’s Laura Muir, China’s Zhang Guowei and Israel’s Marharyata Dorozhon produced surprise results in what was the 50th anniversary edition of the Bislett Games.

Muir defeated a world-class women’s 1500m field containing four runners with superior personal bests. She pushed on once the pacemakers had dropped out to establish a lead of about 40 metres at the bell.

To huge applause, the 22-year-old got home in 4:00.39 as Kenyan record-holder Faith Kipyegon, leading the chase, just failed to close the gap, crossing in 4:00.94.

Zhang prospered best in cold and windy conditions which frustrated the organisers’ hopes for a world high jump record, dancing with joy after earning victory with a clearance at 2.36m over a field that included the respective world outdoor and indoor champions, Bogdan Bondarenko and Mutaz Essa Barshim, who both managed 2.33m.

A second-round javelin throw of 64.56m enabled Dorozhon to finish clear of a javelin field including double Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova, world champion Christina Obergfoll and 2011 world champion Mariya Abakumova.

Kenya’s world 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop earned his fourth Dream Mile victory in as many outings, clocking 3:51.45.

Genzebe Dibaba’s renewed attempt to better the world 5000m record of 14:11.15 set by older sister Tirunesh on this track five years earlier ended in disappointment as she could only manage 14:21.29.

Oslo, 11 June


The return to full fitness of 800m world record-holder David Rudisha continued as he won for a fourth consecutive time at this meeting, clocking 1:43.58, just 0.02 off the world-leading time by Mohammed Aman.

Rudisha, who had suffered a muscle spasm two weeks earlier in Ostrava, finished ahead of USA’s Boris Berian, who clocked a personal best of 1:43.84.

Brazil’s 2011 world pole vault champion Fabiana Murer defeated Greece’s Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou on countback after both had cleared 4.80m.

USA’s Francena McCorory won the 400m in a meeting record of

49.86, while compatriot Tori Bowie triumphed in the 200m in a season’s best of 22.23 despite a -2.8m/s headwind.

World javelin champion Vitezslav Vesely of the Czech Republic pulled out after two throws with an injury, but his best effort of 83.62m was enough to win.

Croatian discus thrower Sandra Perkovic moved to just one victory away from capturing the overall Diamond Race title despite it still being mid-June with a best winning effort of 68.44m.

In a long jump competition where the lead changed five times, Christabel Nettey earned her first Diamond League victory. The Canadian eventually won with 6.92m.

New York City, 13 June


Wayde van Niekerk became the first African to better 44 seconds for 400m, clocking 43.96. The 22-year-old South African also beat Olympic champion Kirani James, who was second in 44.17.

Home sprinter Jimmy Vicaut equalled the European 100m record of 9.86 when finishing second behind Asafa Powell, the Jamaican winning in 9.81.

Vicaut’s area record followed those of Van Niekerk and Evan Jager, who set a North American record of 8:00.45 in the men’s 3000m steeplechase, despite falling at the final barrier when victory seemed and a sub-8:00 time seemed assured. Jairus Birech of Kenya won in a world-leading 7:58.83.

The track provided four more world-leading performances through Kenya’s world 800m champion Eunice Sum, with a personal best of 1:56.99, Jamaica’s world and Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who sped to 10.74, Kenya’s 1500m runner Silas Kiplagat, who won in 3:30.12, and Orlando Ortega, who bettered 13 seconds in the 110m hurdles for the first time with a win in 12.94.

France’s Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie failed to win here for the first time in seven years, only managing 5.71m as Konstadinos Filippidis won with a Greek record of 5.91m.

The Greek record also fell in the women’s pole vault, which was won by Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou with a world-leading 4.83m.

World and Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams, returning after 10 months out following shoulder and elbow surgery, lost for the first time in 57 meetings, finishing fifth with 18.79m as Christina Schwanitz won with 20.31m.

Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba and Almaz Ayana shared an attack on the 2008 world record of 14:11.15, set by Dibaba’s older sister Tirunesh, but in vain. Dibaba set a meeting record of 14:15.41, Ayana was second in 14:21.97.

Paris, 4 July


Two months after the historic triple jump competition in Doha, Christian Taylor reversed his fortunes against Cuban rival Pedro Pablo Pichardo.

The Olympic champion won with 18.06m, a meeting record which equalled the IAAF Diamond League record set by Pichardo in Qatar. Taylor produced a fifth-round effort of 18.02m and then added four centimetres to it after Pichardo had managed 17.99m in the third round.

Despite blustery winds, Russia’s Olympic high jump champion Anna Chicherova won with 2.03m, which remained the top mark in the world for the rest of 2015.

David Storl won the shot put with 22.20m, the best outdoor mark by a European thrower since Ulf Timmerman’s Olympic win in 1988.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic javelin champion Keshorn Walcott won with a national and meeting record of 90.16m.

Another Olympic champion, 800m runner David Rudisha, was second in 1:43.76 behind the man who took silver in London, Botswana’s Nijel Amos, who won in 1:43.27.

Allyson Felix ran 22.09 to win the 200m from Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands, who clocked a season’s best of 22.29.

Sandra Perkovic suffered a shock defeat in the discus as Cuba’s Yaime Perez threw 67.13m to beat the Croatian Olympic champion by seven centimetres.

Justin Gatlin won the 100m in 9.75, 0.01 off his world-leading time.

Lausanne, 9 July


Genzebe Dibaba made history with a world 1500m record of 3:50.07, surpassing Qu Yunxia’s mark of 3:50.46, set at the 1993 Chinese National Games.

After world indoor 800m champion Chanelle Price had paced her through 400m in 1:00.31 and 800m in 2:04.52, the Ethiopian still had European champion Sifan Hassan for company as she passed the bell in 2:50.3, but she kicked on for a monumental win.

Six women ran faster than four minutes. Hassan clocked a national record of 3:56.05 in second place, while Shannon Rowbury broke the North American record with 3:56.29 in third.

The men’s 1500m, though not part of the Diamond Race, saw a record four men running faster than 3:29:00.

Kenya’s Asbel Kiprop became third fastest in history, missing the world record by just 0.69 when clocking 3:26.69.

Algeria’s Olympic champion Taoufik Makhloufi clocked a lifetime best of 3:28.75 in second, with Morocco’s 2012 world indoor champion Abdalaati Iguider third in 3:28.79, and Great Britain’s Mo Farah fourth in 3:28.93.

USA’s Joe Kovacs won the shot put with 22.56m, the best throw seen since 2003, an IAAF Diamond League record and good enough for eighth on the world all-time list.

Amel Tuka, a 24-year-old from Bosnia and Herzegovina, marked his IAAF Diamond League debut with a surprise 800m win in a national record of 1:42.51, which was to be the fastest time of the season.

Monaco, 17 July


Despite a chilly headwind, Usain Bolt improved his placing from 62nd to eighth on the 2015 100m world list on the rain swept opening day, when winning in 9.87.

The two-day meeting concluded in warmer conditions as Dafne Schippers took 0.02 off her Dutch 100m record, winning in 10.92.

Britain’s 19-year-old Dina Asher-Smith – a kit carrier in this stadium during the London 2012 Olympic Games – was fourth in 11.06, but had become the first British woman to break 11 seconds in her heat when clocking 10.99.

Her British record was followed by another in the long jump from Shara Proctor, who won with 6.98m.

Like Bolt, Britain’s Mo Farah made a winning return to the scene of his Olympic victory as he took the 3000m in 7:34.66.

But neither of Farah’s fellow home gold medallists of 2012 experienced the winning feeling.

Heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill was fifth in the 100m hurdles, clocking 12.79 in a race won by USA’s Jasmin Stowers in 12.47 while Greg Rutherford – the third winner on ‘Super Saturday’ – had to settle for 8.18m and third place in a long jump competition won by USA’s Marquis Dendy with 8.38m.

After instigating a postponement of the men’s pole vault during the opening night’s rain, Renaud Lavillenie returned to win with a stadium and meeting record of 6.03m.

London, 24-25 July


On a chilly evening at Stockholm’s 1912 Olympic stadium, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce re-stated her 100m credentials as she won in 10.93.

Greg Rutherford produced three long jumps beyond the reach of any of his competitors, including home European indoor champion Michel Torneus, the Briton’s best being 8.34m.

Caterine Ibarguen extended her winning run to 28 competitions as she produced five efforts superior to her triple jump rivals, with a best of 14.69m.

Zuzana Hejnova, fit again and seeking to defend her women’s 400m world title, followed up a win in London with victory in 54.37.

Christina Schwanitz effectively secured her first Diamond Race title as she won the shot put with a best effort of 20.13m, with world and Olympic champion Valerie Adams, struggling following her comeback from surgery, finishing a gloomy fourth with 18.69m.

Cuba’s Olympic silver medallist Yarisley Silva won the women’s pole vault with 4.81m after a tactical battle with Greece’s Diamond Race leader Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou and Brazil’s 2011 world champion Fabiana Murer.

Stockholm, 30 July


The first of the two IAAF Diamond League finals saw 16 of the 32 Diamond Race champions confirmed – with the accompanying perk of a cheque for US$40,000, a Diamond Trophy and a wild card entry for the next IAAF World Championships.

With double points on offer, 10 athletes cut through the calculations to claim the spoils with concluding victories, while six others found that second place did the trick overall.

One of the highlights was the women’s 3000m clash between Ethiopia’s world 1500m record holder and world champion Genzebe Dibaba and her compatriot Almaz Ayana, who had beaten her to the world 5000m title.

Ayana won in 8:22.34 but second place in 8:26.54 was enough to earn Dibaba the Diamond Race for the 3000m/5000m category.

Three other world gold medallists maintained their pre-eminence in the Diamond Trophy just four days after the end of the IAAF World Championships.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce earned the 100m spoils in 10.93, Greg Rutherford won the long jump with 8.32m and Zuzana Hejnova showed her supremacy in the 400m hurdles with a win in 54.57.

Three-time world 1500m champion Asbel Kiprop and Panama’s 200m specialist Alonso Edward arrived in Zurich lagging behind in their respective Diamond Races, but victories in the Swiss city sufficed for them to come out on top. Kiprop, 10th at the bell, surged to win in 3:35.79 while Edward clocked 20.03.

Ivana Spanovic won the women’s long jump, adding a centimetre to

Zurich, 3 September


her Serbian record with a final effort of 7.02m, but the overall win went to USA’s second-placed Tianna Bartoletta, who jumped 6.97m.

Olympic 400m champion Kirani James also won the war despite losing the battle as although he finished second in 44.28 behind USA’s LaShawn Merritt of the United States, who won in 44.18, that was enough to successfully defend his Diamond Race title.

Similarly, newly-crowned world discus champion Piotr Malachowski was beaten by fellow Pole Robert Urbanek, 65.78m to 65.04, but took the big prize.

Second place in the men’s 3000m steeplechase in 8:15.64 behind fellow Kenyan Paul Kipsiele Koech (8:10.24) earned Jairus Kipchoge Birech his Diamond Trophy.

Despite being beaten by Russia’s newly established world 110m hurdles champion Sergey Shubenkov, who won in 13.15, USA’s David Oliver of the United States – second in 13.30 – also proved triumphant overall.

A shot put of 19.91m earned Christina Schwanitz of Germany a fifth Diamond League win in 2015, and her first Diamond Trophy.

Kenya’s Eunice Sum also won her fifth Diamond League race of the season, clocking 1:59.14 to earn her third consecutive 800m Diamond Race.

A winning effort of 64.31m earned world javelin record holder Barbora Spotakova her fourth Diamond Trophy. Mutaz Essa Barshim – who, like Spotakova, left Beijing without a medal, won the high jump Diamond Race with a clearance of 2.32m.

Victory with a clearance of 4.77m earned Greece’s Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou overall honours in the pole vault.


Renaud Lavillenie maintained his status as the only athlete in the world to have won every Diamond Race since the series began in 2010.

Only world indoor champion Konstadinos Filippidis had a chance of denying the Frenchman his perfect six pole vault titles, but Lavillenie cleared 5.95m to earn victory.

Habiba Ghribi of Tunisia won the women’s 3000m steeplechase in 9:05.36, the fastest time since Russia’s Gulnara Galkina set the world record of 8:58.81 at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Ghribi’s time was an IAAF Diamond League and African record, but the Diamond Race went to Kenya’s sixth-placed Virginia Nyambura, who began the season as a pacemaker.

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon also ran an African record, winning the mile in 4:16.71, the fastest time for 19 years. Sifan Hassan, second in a Dutch record of 4:18.20, won the 1500m/mile Diamond Race.

In the men’s 5000m Diamond Race, whoever won would also take the Diamond Race, and that winner was Ethiopia’s 17-year-old Yomif Kejelcha, who produced a world-leading 12:53.98.

The season-long and attention-grabbing IAAF Diamond League triple jump rivalry between Olympic champion Christian Taylor and Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo finally went in favour of the US athlete as he earned the decisive victory with 17.59m.

USA’s Joe Kovacs and the man whose world title he took in Beijing, Germany’s David Storl, were level on points coming into the final, but an effort of 21.35m proved enough to give Kovacs his first Diamond

Brussels, 11 September


Trophy as he finished third behind New Zealand’s Tom Walsh, who won with 21.39m, but crucially one place ahead of Storl.

Third place was also enough to secure Spain’s 36-year-old Ruth Beitia a first Diamond Race win as she cleared 1.93m, with Russia’s world champion Maria Kuchina wining when she equalled her personal best of 2.01m.

In Brussels, Sandra Perkovic and Caterine Ibarguen became the only athletes to claim six Diamond League wins in 2015.

Despite losing her world discus title to Cuba’s Denia Caballero, Perkovic – who only needed to compete in Brussels to confirm her fourth Diamond Race win – earned revenge with a winning throw of 67.50m.

Ibarguen was also out of reach in terms of Diamond Race points, but went from third to first with a final effort of 14.60m for her 30th successive win.

World champion Dafne Schippers ran 22.12 to win the 200m by 0.10 from world 400m champion Allyson Felix, but the latter earned the Diamond Trophy. Second place also meant a Diamond Trophy for Felix’s compatriots Francena McCorory in the 400m and Bershawn Jackson in the 400m hurdles, and for Botswana’s Nijel Amos in the 800m.

Three US 100m hurdlers arrived level on Diamond Race points but Dawn Harper-Nelson won in 12.63 to finish the race in Brussels – and the season-long Diamond Race – ahead of compatriots Sharika Nelvis and Jasmin Stowers.

Justin Gatlin earned his third consecutive Diamond Trophy in the 100m and a javelin throw of 87.37m meant Tero Pitkamaki became the first Finnish athlete to win a Diamond Race.

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http://www.youtube.com/diamondleague

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IAAF Diamond League meetings

BirminghamBirmingham Diamond League British Athletics Alexander Stadium Walsall Road Birmingham West Midlands B42 2BE UK

General email: [email protected]

Meeting director, Cherry Alexander: [email protected]

Press chief, Craig Gundersen: [email protected]

BrusselsAG Insurance Memorial Van Damme Memorial Van Damme NV Marathonlaan 119 a 1020 Brussels Belgium


Meeting director, Wilfried Meert: [email protected]

Press chief, Gert Van Goolen: [email protected]

DohaDoha 2016 Qatar Athletics Association PO Box 8139 Doha Qatar


Meeting director, Dahlan Jumaan Al-Hamad: [email protected]

Press chief, Ghania Tinakicht: [email protected]



EugenePrefontaine Classic 2110 Fairmount Blvd Eugene OR 97403 USA


Meeting director, Tom Jordan: [email protected]

Press chief, Jeff Oliver: [email protected]

LausanneAthletissima Case postale 56 1041 Poliez-le Grand Switzerland


Meeting director, Jacky Delapierre: [email protected]

Press chief, Pierre-André Pasche: [email protected]

LondonLondon Anniversary Games British Athletics Alexander Stadium Walsall Road Birmingham West Midlands B42 2BE UK


Meeting director, Cherry Alexander: [email protected]

Press chief, Craig Gundersen: [email protected]



MonacoHerculis Fédération Monégasque d’Athlétisme Stade Louis II 98000 Monaco


General media email: [email protected]

Meeting director, Jean-Pierre Schoebel: [email protected]

Press chief, Lydie Calvas: [email protected]

OsloExxonMobil Bislett Games Bislett Alliansen PO Box 5889 Majorstua 0308 Oslo Norway


Meeting director, Steinar Hoen: [email protected]

Press chief, Solveig Høyland: [email protected]

ParisMeeting de Paris Fédération Française d’Athlétisme Bureau du MEETING AREVA Stade de France ZAC du Cornillon Nord 93216 Saint-Denis La Plaine cedex France


Meeting director, Laurent Boquillet: [email protected]

Press chief, Laurence Dacoury: [email protected]



RabatMeeting International Mohammed VI Complexe Sportif Prince Moulay Abdelah Rabat B.P. 1778 R/P Rabat Morocco


Meeting director, Abdeslam Ahizoune: [email protected]

Press chief, Khalid Attoubata: [email protected]

RomeGolden Gala Pietro Mennea Federazione Italiana Di Atletica Leggera Via Flaminia Nuova 830 00191 Roma Italy


Meeting director, Luigi D’Onofrio: [email protected]

Press chief, Marco Sicari: [email protected]

ShanghaiIAAF Diamond League Shanghai Snelliusstraat10 6533 NV Nijmegen Netherlands


Meeting director, Jos Hermens. Event coordinator, Ellen van Langen (Global Sports Communication): [email protected]

Press chief co-ordinator (from the Netherlands), Marleen Vink-Rennings: [email protected]



StockholmStockholm BAUHAUS Athletics Stadionklubbarnas Service Stockholm AB PO Box 26099 S-100 41 Stockholm Sweden


Meeting director, Anders Tallgren: [email protected]

Press chief, John-Eric Ericsson: [email protected]

Accreditation and technical media manager, John-Eric Ericsson: [email protected]

ZurichWeltklasse Zürich Geschäftsstelle Baslerstrasse 30 8048 Zurich Switzerland


Meeting director, Andreas Hediger: [email protected]

Meeting director, Christoph Joho: [email protected]

Press chief, Roland Hirsbrunner: [email protected]

Media accreditation | IAAF Diamond League 2016 media guide53

Media accreditationThe IAAF Diamond League operates a centralised online media accreditation system for all 14 meetings. Accreditation for the 2016 season begins on 8 March 2016.

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